[FFML] Farewell Old Friend...

[David Nolen]

Benjamin A. Oliver wrote:
> 
> That was a gloriously fun one to write.  Unfortunately, it required a
> lot of time and idea bouncing with an online friend (Jason) who has
> his own RL to live.  I assume he's still alive.  Hope so.  Probably
> is.  Hopefully not stuck in the pizza industry forever.  And I was
> going through an existential crisis at the time, oh, more than a
> decade ago?  Wow, it has been a while.  Then I got married.  Twice.
> Had a kid.  Then the universe exploded.  Then the continuity reset
> and
> we had a reboot as--I don't know, where was I again?

It has been some time, hasn't it?  It was certainly a lot of fun to
watch you get that pink haired chibi into all sorts of messed up
trouble. 

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And it was good to see that as well, as I enjoyed them all immensely. 

> Anyway, it all felt like a lot of fun in my head.  In all likelihood,
> none of these stories will ever be completed.  Seriously, it's been
> like a decade since I put any serious work into any of them.  I'm
> just
> not in that place in the world anymore.  Or in my head.  Or with
> enough spare time to do much else.  But in the interest of closure
> and
> completion, I'll answer anyone's questions that posts such a question
> to the list.  I promise a straight answer.  Or a crooked one.  Or
> something like that.

Heh, I understand that all too well.  I've had a few inklings over the
years to finish a few of my stories (not that any of them were any
good, but then that was never quite the point), but to be honest the
reason I wrote them seemed to fade.  It seems the same for many that
were on the list.  I've had some thoughts about entering into the foray
of trash serial novels on Amazon, but I don't know that I have the time
or interest to do something like that.  

> After all, the FFML is going to end.  Why not go out with a bang?  If
> you somehow, after all this time, have kept the faith and still
> somehow like the stuff I wrote, and have unanswered questions about
> it, you deserve at least that much.

I think it was more on the order of if you were even still alive and/or
kickin'.  I wonder if this is how it would be at the end of the
universe; all the evolved cosmics, the gods, the eldrich horrors,
Arbyfish, Pink Spores, Mad Scientists, etc who'd may have have known
each other at the beginning had all scattered to the infinite vastness,
now come back together to watch as the last black hole bleeds off into
zero energy photons and all matter and energy finally return back to
what they were before they were matter and energy.

All things come to an end, but it's good too see how many are still
here at the end.

David